The Provincetown Players are founded in Massachusetts, opening with a production of Eugene O'Neill's Bound East for Cardiff

Manchester dramatist Harold Brighouse has a major success when his play Hobson's Choice is performed in London

After an 800-mile journey in an open boat Ernest Shackleton returns to rescue his stranded colleagues in the South Shetlands

Within a five-week period the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello writes two masterpieces, Six Characters in Search of an Author immediately followed by Henry IV

The Czech playwright Karel Capek gives the world the term 'robot', in the title of his play Rossum's Universal Robots

Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie is performed in New York

Robert J. Flaherty lives with the Inuit in the Arctic to make his dramatized documentary Nanook of the North

Sean O'Casey's first play The Shadow of a Gunman is performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin

US dramatist Elmer Rice establishes his reputation with The Adding Machine, an expressionistic drama about the machine age

Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan has its world premiere in New York

Sean O'Casey's second play Juno and the Paycock is performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin

Mae West is sentenced to eight days in gaol when Sex, written, produced and starred in by herself on Broadway, is judged to be obscene

DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy, dramatized with a new title by himself and his wife Dorothy, has a great success on Broadway and in London

The Front Page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, has its premiere on Broadway

Set in a World War I trench, the play Journey's End reflects the wartime experiences of its British author, R.C. Sherriff

Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bedbug is directed in Moscow by Meyerhold with incidental music by Shostakovich

US author Marc Connelly's play Green Pastures has its premiere on Broadway

Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence star in the West End in Private Lives, Coward's comedy of marital complications

The trilogy Mourning becomes Electra, Eugene O'Neill's transposition to New England of the Oresteia story, is performed in New York

French playwright Jean Anouilh has his first play, L'Hermine, produced and published

García Lorca writes his play Blood Wedding while he is director of a company touring in rural Spain

In Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour two teachers are maliciously accused of lesbianism by one of their pupils

Frank Lloyd directs Charles Laughton and Clark Gable in a dramatic account of the famous mutiny on the Bounty

T.S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral has its first performance in Canterbury cathedral

García Lorca writes his play The House of Bernarda Alba in the last year of his short life